Word: grim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finally took a decisive step to better himself. He did not quite manage the farm in Essex, but he became the licensee of a pub in Oldham, Lancashire. "Yungg Alber" was a man of feeling; like his uncle, he always took pride in making his victim's grim death throes as light and brief as possible. His new pub had an appropriate name. It was called: "Help the Poor Struggler...
Last week, as the newsmen straggled back to Shanghai and Peiping, bitter stories and shocking pictures showed up in the U.S. press. Getting at the news in liberated, looted Manchuria had been a grim business. Some of the correspondents wrote as if they had shared a nightmare...
...Houston, in those grim days the last heavy U.S. vessel left in the Far Pacific, was still full of fight; her crew had begun calling her the "Battleship Houston...
With all the fervor of a grim old theologian, Pastor Niemoller declared: "We have made a discovery that . . . has surprised us far more than the Nazi terror and has terrified us much more than the unimaginable consequences of our collapse...
...grim doctrinaire ranks [are] marching toward a future in which all thoughts will be the same. . . . Is the comrade in the second squad thinking a little thought of his own, all by himself? Let him beware. Let him remember Browder. If he isn't careful his name, too, will become a hissing and a mocking-there will be a sin called Smithism or Jonesism will damn him forever...